The Selection of the Attractive States (SAS), as described in this book, consists of consecutive replacement
of the unwelcome perceptions into the ones that you wish. It is necessary to
experience the joyful wish (i.e. an anticipated wish) for such substitution of
unwelcome perceptions and cultivate them persistently and firmly until a newly
created habit overpowers the old ones which haw been created
automatically.I call this path “Direct”
precisely because the only significant condition necessary to travel this route
is having a joyful wish to change the perception that has been revealed.

While practicing
SAS the person achieves complete eradication of negative emotions that
he has perceived, he discovers that along with the strong and easily identified
negative emotions he regularly experiences a large number of minor negative emotions.Without exaggeration we can say that nearly
every perception has a diminutive splash of negative emotions (most often it is
discontent, negative attitude, anxiety), followed by a hardly observed “tail”
feeding an already strong and concentrated negative background.All this altogether creates an overwhelmingly
poisoned atmosphere.The consequences
are terrible and catastrophic.

First of all it
leads to what is called “ageing” and it starts not at 40 years, but at 22 to
25, and it is very rapid.The skin not
only loses its elasticity but is unpleasant to touch and to look at, bodies and
faces become flabby, ugly, drawn, fat and are affected by unpleasant
thinness.Odours
become strong and displeasing. The health deteriorates continuously but this is
a long and slow process the person is unaware of these subtle and very
unpleasant changes, in the mornings he wakes up jaded and in the evenings goes
to bed as if in a disturbed state of mind. He feels fatigued and needs more and
more stimulants like coffee, mechanical sex or primitive impressions. Look at
our old men and women around you, forget all the political correctness and be
honest as much as you are capable.Their
bodies and faces are a material embodiment of the negative emotions that they have
experienced during their lifetime and continue to experience.This is so prevalent that people find it
natural. They accept old age is an unavoidable loss of common sense, it is
unattractive, dull, aggressive and full of suffering.But in India, Nepal, Tibet and Sri Lanka you
can see very old people and how much they differ from ours!Their faces, voices and manners are
attractive, their old bodies do not look ugly and their eyes sometimes
literally charm.

Secondly, I am
totally sure that most diseases or even all of them are caused only by negative
emotions.According to the contemporary
religion viruses and microbes cause people’s illnesses, but I know for sure
that those viruses and microbes ruin bodies of only those people who especially
are subjected to negative emotions.More
than that, it’s not hard to track the behaviour
between certain illnesses and the type of dominant negative emotion.Those who practice SAS and achieve
greater and greater degrees of freedom from negative emotions sometimes have
reoccurring splashes of the old habit to experience negative emotions and they
notice surprisingly that something unimaginable happens to the body.It aches a little on and off and is even
definitely sore in some places, feels heavy, inert, tired, uneasy and all this
is resulting from just some half an hour to an hour of feeling negative and
only after few remaining negative emotions!These are the moments when it is especially clear that if you do not
eradicate negative emotions you are continually unwell.People regularly experience these negative
emotions either as bright splashes or “weak” negative background (NB) of uneasiness, anxiety, discontentment,
self-pity, sadness, etc., and their bodies are continually and cruelly
suppressed by this poison.

Thirdly, it’s not
only the body that negative emotions are ruining, they also fully destroy the
capability to have joyful wishes, clarity of mind, enlightened perceptions
(EPs), affection, sense of beauty, aspiration, serenity, joyfulness of
creativity, fondness, admiration, anticipation… negative emotions transform a
person into the living dead.For many
long years he can wander the world, decomposing little by little, being alive
on the outside and having nothing alive on the inside.It also means that the door for the journey
of the mind is implacably shut, the door to new discoveries and enlightened
perceptions is closed.

I emphasize that
no spiritual practice, no yoga or meditations, no prayers or prostrations lead
you anywhere if you do not try in the first instance to achieve full
elimination from negative emotions and continuous experience of enlightened
perceptions.Nothing is possible while
you have negative emotions.Eradication
of negative emotions and the discovery of the world of enlightened perceptions
in yourself is the path to an incredible journey no matter what spiritual
practice you have chosen.

I find that any
sincere aspiration to enlightened perceptions leads you quickly to a bright or
a brighter result whether you are a buddhist, krishnia, orthodox or whatever.You may worship god in any form or believe
some formless god; you may be an atheist, Darwinist, esoteric, tantric, some
ancient temple follower or the follower of a newly created sect.But if you sincerely aspire to enlightened
perceptions and the uncompromising elimination of negative emotions and dogmas,
if you do not accept in any way negative emotions or dogmatism, if you indulge
in any practice aimed at experiencing enlightened perceptions and work to stop
negative emotions the results will appear and your life will become more
interesting and full.But if you
encourage or justify negative emotions, lie to yourself or pretend that you do
not have negative emotions then this way is a dead end, advancing to old age
with a dull mind and intense suffering.

If society does
not have an uncompromising policy regarding negative emotions it will never
live peacefully no matter how complicated the law is and how stringent the
punishment, whatever devices and mechanisms are invented.The Community of PDP practitioners, “snouts”,
is a unique example of a new type of community, it is very stable, as long as
there are simply no inner forces capable of destroying it, as any impulse of
aggression, resentment, self-pity, greediness, arrogance or inferiority and so
on, are immediately subjected to eradication, or, as minimum an attempt at
immediate elimination.Consequently,
fondness, a wish of enlightened perceptions both in yourself and others,
devotion, affection, compassion and so on are rapidly evolving.Some communities, even though they do not set
a task of eliminating negative emotions and dogmatism, but still approve of PDP
and support the snouts aspirations, are remarkably peace loving (please do not
confuse with defenseless and infantile) and stable.

The Earth you live on is above
all the world of negative emotionsand this
is not an exaggeration.They are
revealed in so many instances and are so tightly intertwined in our lives that
sometimes negative emotions seem to be the only existing emotions and all you
are able to do is to refine, complicate or vary them, they
connect and entwine with each other, thus making them multi-layered and
intensive.Negative emotions surround
you from everywhere, they are imposed and cultivated.I do not even speak about such obvious
phenomena like the cult of violence in movies and the news or open any
“feature” book considered to be profound and good reading, there you will find
“refined” negative emotions, strong negative emotions, complicated negative
emotions and if the reader acquires a complex of negative emotions shuffled
with positive emotions (PEs), then this is the reason to find the book
“great”.Well, where can the books about
enlightened perceptions come from?To describe
the enlightened perceptions one must have this experience and strive to
strengthen it by any means.It is
impossible just to create them in your mind, this is why there are only a few
books of this kind, like all works of Castaneda, TaishaAbelar, Florinda Donner,
Christopher Isherwood’s “Ramakrishna and his Disciples”, Satprem’s
“Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness”, “Mahamudra” of TakpoTashiNamgyal and Dalai Lama, Je TsongKhapa’s “Lam rim”, “Krishnamurti’s notebook», “Yoga Sutras” Patanjali,
TulkuUrgyenRinpoche’s “Rainbow Painting”, TensinWangyal’s “Wonders of the Natural Mind”,
Evans-Wentz’s “Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa”.

One of the worst mistakes is
people think that it’s not them who are choosing negative emotions, they think that
are “forced” to experience them by other people and circumstances.This is one hundred percent wrong and people
believing in this concept are totally helpless, even those that want to get rid
of negative emotions or at least some of them.I affirm on the basis of my own experience and the experience of other
DP practitioners, that whether you have negative emotions or not depends only
on you and on your efforts to get over this terrible habit.

The joyful wish accompanied
with anticipation to change the circumstances is totally compatible with the
practice of negative emotions eradication with clear understanding that it is
not the environment that causes negative emotions but that
people are just used to such an experiences of negative emotions within their
given circumstances.This is why it is possible to eradicate
completely negative emotions associated with the given situation and experience
enlightened perceptions and at the same time joyfully wish to change the
situation and make every effort to do so.

There are no circumstances that
can create obstructions for practicing.The less you welcome the situation, the easier negative emotions show up
and it gives the chance to practice especially intensive elimination and
achieve a brighter result.As a result a
practitioner encounters even the least welcome situations with appreciation, determination and anticipation (see
chapter “Stalking” for details).If you
are in an aggressive environment you can perfect the elimination of negative
emotions.If you are in a comfortable
environment you can train your effort for elimination of complacency and
dullness.You have ideal conditions for practicing in any circumstances as long
as you live.At the same time there
comes a new attitude to the circumstances, unlike the chaotic accumulation of
events, but there will be something lively and responsive.

Is it possible to be free of
negative emotions?People are so hopelessly stuck in them that even the idea
itself of getting rid of negative emotions causes irritation.They imagine themselves without negative
emotions and feel perplexed of how can they live; are they to turn into a
senseless block of wood?They are so
addicted to negative emotions that they cannot even think of anything outside
these emotions though many of them have had short splashes of weak
reverberations of enlightened perceptions, especially in early childhood.

Ask any person whether he feels
negative.He will reply “certainly” I do
sometimes.The word “certainly” reflects
his firm conviction that anything to the contrary is impossible.And the word “sometimes” is self-cheating,
because people have negative emotions or negative background continually, not
from time to time.The stronger the
habit of experiencing negative emotions the less a person is aware of them and
soon the moment arrives when he has a wild splash of aggression with a heart
attack, which is recognised as a negative emotion,
but all other times this person thinks he does not have negative emotions.The degree of how deep people are in negative
emotions is enormous and inexpressible.99.99% of time people experience more or less strong negative emotions
or negative background, from time to time these are interrupted by PEs – nothing can survive in this toxic environment.But even PEs are a
poor consolation as they are the opposite side of negative emotions and they
intoxicate just as much, because they include pleasure over possession (whether
it is attention or objects or power), mischievous gloating, self-complacency,
complacency, narcissism, feeling of self-importance
(FSI), contempt, pride and others.Besides that PEs are not compatible with
enlightened perceptionsas they also provoke stronger negative emotions
because, for example, the stronger FSI of a personthe
easier it is to hurt him, the more threats to his self-conceitedness that he is
aware of the more often he is displeased, angry, hurt and aggressive.Sometimes enlightened perceptions add to PEs and sometimes PEs compensate the effect of negative emotions (e.g. complacency
compensates self-complacency), and then there comes a moment of relative
freedom from negative emotions allowing some reverberations of enlightened
perceptions to get through, but they are too weak and can disappear with time
completely.

Negative emotions are toxic,
they are a narcotic addiction and people die
from them but yet they receive some “pleasure” from them and if they try to get
off the addiction withdrawal symptoms come immediately along with the fear of
freedom.People get “impressions” and
think that this is life.“Impressions” are PE.Anger towards the enemy is accompanied by
gloating when a person thinks of revenge.Grief over a loss goes hand in hand with the satisfaction that others
will feel sorry for you and pay attention to you, this is why negative emotions
are seen as having some value as the way to receive PEs.The very idea of elimination causes fear of
losing those PEs, hence self-pity, skepticism and
even aggression accompany the idea.How
far gone should a person be to clutch for negative emotions as means to feel
“alive”!A pleasure from negative
emotions is the “pleasure” from eating toxins followed by a very bad feeling,
then later relief.The stronger the
poison the higher the contrast with the following relief, this is why people
intentionally cultivate negative emotions as they cannot have enlightened
perceptions and don’t even dream of them because they are
used to the idea that life is dull and monotonous.At the age from 25 to 30 people already start
waiting for the death as a rescue from complete boredom, negative emotions and
illnesses, thus they program their ageing and disintegration.

But still freedom is possible and I offer a practice that leads to this
freedom.Overpowering negative emotions
is the very first step which opens a limitless
expanse of conditions.There are
people admitting that it is possible to decrease the power of negative
emotions, but they do not believe it is possible to do so by applying their own
efforts.They try to find a “big red button” (BRB) – they push it and sufferings disappear.In their quests for the button they practice
yoga, breathing exercises, sit in different postures, hum mantras, march, sing
hymns and so on, they make whatever possible but not the efforts to stop
negative emotions and “jump” into enlightened perceptions.Certain negative emotions can be indeed
decreased but only for a short period and with little or no effect, sooner or
later the attention sneaks off and the same negative emotions come back.It
is impossible to sit and hum mantras continuously for twenty four hours, seven
days a week, you have to get up and buy food, go to work, socialise,
sleep and this is when negative emotions attack you again.Tibetan monks believe that in the distant
future after hundreds of reincarnations they will stop negative emotions but
they will never believe it’s possible to do it right after a few years of
persistent work and not five hundred years of humming mantras.

To avoid any misunderstanding I will identifythat the “effort” is a very intensive,
concentrated and joyful wish.“Concentrated” means your attention is not scattered to a chaos of
distractions. “Joyful” means being accompanied by expectation, freshness and anticipation.To “make an effort to eliminate negative
emotions” does not mean you strain every last muscle, clench your teeth or
breathe in some special way, it means you wish strongly to stop negative
emotions and be very keen to experience enlightened perceptions.A concentrated, intensive and joyful wish
leads to changing perceptions in conformity for this to be granted.The more persistent and determined you are in
this practice the better skilled you become and the more efficient your efforts
become.It is a mystery how it happens
that these efforts lead to changes but as long as it happens I use it and
achieve what I wish.People do not know
about this distinguishing feature of their efforts as their wishes are either
weak and scattered or their drive does not include aspiration to enlightened
perceptions.

A couple more words that give a
precise description of the effort, they are to “Remember” and to “Jump
In”.“To make an effort of negative emotion elimination” is identical to
“Remember yourself in a free state from negative emotions” or “Jump In the
free state from negative emotions”.I
draw your attention that it is required not just to think of the moment that
you once experienced enlightened perceptions, but to remember exactly your
state when this occurred.As far as all
perceptions exist only in the here and now, “Remember yourself in enlightened
perceptions” means “experience enlightened perceptions immediately”.

You make a super effort when
you do what you think is impossible, but go
on increasing your efforts regardless of your skeptical thoughts or whatever.

It is impossible
to imagine the contemporary world without science.Scientists study characteristics of
materials, investigate the rules and ways to obtain the characteristics they
need and apply this knowledge to replace perceptions.Feeling cold is changed onto feeling warm
when you put on trekking sneakers and a modern jacket made of polyartek instead of a punched wet skin and wooden clogs,
toothache is eliminated when treated with modern technologies. But there was a time with no science, more
than that those who studied materials and creatures were persecuted and blamed
for disrespecting the gods and so on.Let us admit that Humanity is now on a new coil of civilised
development.Modern people are certain
that it is impossible just to replace irritation with fondness, depression with
faith and sense of beauty etc.Nobody
studies the nature of perceptions or practices their replacement guided by
joyful wishes, anticipation and common sense.Even more, critics promise God’s severe punishment to those people who
practice replacement of negative emotions as they “upset the harmony of human
nature” because if negative emotions exist they exist for a reason or "for
something".In this case it is not
clear why the critics do not stop treating toothache, use warm clothes and
condoms; if toothache, colds and AIDS exist, then according to their dogmas, it
is needed "for something”?For
those that accept a man is “created” with negative emotions and that the interference
with the “natural order of things” is going to lead to a “misbalance”, I remind
them that if a man is created by somebody complete with an already a full set
of perceptions, then these perceptions include a joyful wish to change and a
wish to make the effort to experience enlightened perceptions and stop
suffering.There is one more point I’d
like to attract your attention to.If a
person makes a change in his life under the influence of some misconception or
the fear or respect of some authority then sometime later he might feel sorry
or guilty for making the change and will have a desire to return to his
previous condition or seek something else because he is not happy with the life
he has created.He had bright
expectations but reality turned up different.If a person was successful in eliminating at least one negative emotion
and straight away experienced a splash of enlightened perceptions then just the
idea of returning to the previous condition of negative emotions will make him
shudder, it will be associated with death or even something worse.The
more often the practitioner experiences the enlightened perceptions, the more
determined he is to consolidate this condition and try to stop negative
emotions and this new reality proves to be extremely more attractive.

As a new epoch begins in the
life of Humanity, people start investigating enlightened perceptions and their
components, characteristics and laws, bring into the light the joyful wishes
aimed to change constituents of perceptions and create optimum technologies for
these changes.In the process of
investigating materials the scientists of the past discovered new substances
with unique and incomprehensible characteristics.Likewise in this process, while practicing
replacement of negative emotions with enlightened perceptions, the new
enlightened perceptions appear with such striking qualities that are impossible
to see even in the boldest of dreams.The era of enlightened perceptions engineering begins forming a
conglomerate called the “man”.A man
starts a new and unique journey, the peculiarity of this journey consists of in
the fact, that it’s not a notorious “journey of the mind” usually implying a
certain emotional or intellectual process severed from the physical reality and
senses, which means the physical body and common chores.A man goes on a journey as a whole
entirety.He is not a dreamer that turns
over philosophical terms in his mind and experiences a huge number of negative
emotions and he has no enlightened perceptions, feels sick and gets worse and
worse.His physical body is also a unity
of perceptions, we call them “feelings”, and these perceptions can also be
replaced directly by effort (e.g. apathy to activeness, from “feeling not well”
to “feeling great”), his physical body begins to transform and improve as
negative emotions are disappearing from the set of perceptions and enlightened
perceptions taking their place.

At
this moment (year 2005) there are very few of such travellers,
only about 20 (I mean “snouts”), but in the year 2000, when I started my
activity, there were no snouts at all.It makes me feel sure there will be more and more of them as money,
cars, education, relations or inheritance are not needed to make the
journey.It is enough to know that this
journey is possible (the task is solved by this book) as well as the fact that
you are alive and have the aspiration to be happy, to experience enlightened
perceptions and overpower distresses.This is why I am confident the number of snouts will grow every year and
the time will come when there will be snouts by the hundreds and
thousands.Therefore I have had the most
intensive anticipation while realizing my joyful wishes of accomplishing
“snout-projects”, when I develop the infrastructure for the snout-culture, get
books translated into other languages, be supportive with the “snouts”
practices and help them become with time the experts in this field and be
enlightened perceptions educators who can assist the beginners independently.All my time and finances are aimed for this
and I enjoy it.

The
minimum task for “snouts” consists of first mastering
the art of lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences and then of learning to
keep the conscious clear throughout the process of passing away (when the body
is going to die), in between the physical death of the body and the birth of
the new and after the reincarnation to recall your practice in the “new life”
and to continue from the level you have gone through in your past life.I am sure that to gain this experience it is
necessary to get rid of distresses and achieve continuous enlightened
perceptions of preferably ecstatic quality.Mankind has already had some similar limited experience (e.g. Dalai-Lama
the 14th, Karmapa the 17th, and hundreds of other
less famous Tibetan monks, “tulku”, known as people
who transferred their consciousness to the new body with some larger or smaller
gaps in their self-consciousness and capability to recall their past lives and
past experiences).

Negative emotions are characterised by
a number of distinguishing features:

1) Realising the process of negative
emotions causes a certain amount of dullness (which means a high decrease in
the capability and the wish to discern perceptions)

6) While you are in the power of negative emotions you are similar
to a programmed robot, your behaviour and reactions
are predictable and most ineffective

7) It is practically impossible to escape from
the flow of negative emotions without a persistent and determined training,
even if in some situations you want to stop negative emotions, they still do not cease due to the power of the
lifelong habit.

3) They are followed by poisoning, feeling unwell, though it is not
as strong as after negative emotions

4) While
you have PEs there is still a fear they are going to
wane sooner or later and negative emotions will appear

5) PEs are nearly hundred percent
incompatible with enlightened perceptions but with the exception of the
situations, when PEs compensate the respective
negative emotions and then a weak reverberation of enlightened perceptions can
appear as a small flash

6) In the process of the release of PEs
dullness will appear afterwards

7) PEs are incompatible with a clear
mind, although it is not as apparent as when somebody is in the power of
negative emotions

8) A “robot-like” resemblance, predictable behaviour
and reactions for a person experiencing PEs; actions
are ineffective as in a case with negative emotions

9) A wish to experience PEs is mostly
similar to an addiction to drugs, the lack of PEs can
cause “withdrawal symptoms” that can be exceptionally painful and can be
accompanied with very strong negative emotions

While a person is submerged in
negative emotions, he hardly can find a clear border between PEs and enlightened perceptions, because it’s very rare he
experiences enlightened perceptions. Therefore the main direction of PDP is
applied to eradicating negative emotions as they cause agony, poisoning and are
most unwelcome.As freedom from negative
emotions expands, PEs start to form layer upon layer, some
layers become obviously unwelcome, the opposing companions of negative
emotions, others will be quite desirable to experience while removing them and
as a result of this process you will find the grains, the seeds of enlightened
perceptions.Some PEs
will disappear on their own providing the opposing negative emotions are
eliminated, like when envy dies then gloating vanishes.

While negative emotions are
being eliminated, enlightened perceptions will not disappear but their qualities will intensify in:

1) frequency

2) intensity

3) profoundness (number of
nuances)

4) transparency (the
degree of differentiation from the adjacent perceptions, “pureness”)

5) resonating (a release
of just one enlightened perception leads to the rush of a whole “bouquet” of
others)

Another significant difference
of enlightened perceptions from PEs is the fact that
no matter how intensive PEs are they always orientate
to some object.Even the strong feeling
of gloating is the emotion aimed at some person for some special reason.Even the strong feeling of pity is the
emotion directed at some special person for some special situation.As for the enlightened perceptions, they have
the ability to be objectless when
the intensity is increasing, especially when they become ecstatic.

Bobcat: “When PEs appear, I have no wish to differentiate perceptions or
ask myself “what do I experience”. There is only a desire to realize the coming
wishes without any attempts to see if they are mechanical or joyful, whether
they are accompanied with poisoning and increasing fatigue or vice versa. As a
result the situations involving negative emotions are unavoidable as there is
no differentiation of the perceptions and it’s not clear what wishes they are
and why, consequently you do not have a chance to release a desire to eliminate
mechanical wishes and start realizing joyful wishes.

When enlightened perceptions
are released, the desire to separate the perceptions becomes stronger and every
effort to differentiate resonates with enlightened perceptions.

PEs
block the intellect’s activity and suppress the ability to rationalise,
to compare possible interpretations and to reach clarity regarding
interpretations.When a person is seized
by these PEs he is choosing only one of the many
possible interpretations not because it is rational, but because it is mostly
comfortable for continuing to experience PEs.In this process even the most incredible
displacements and additions may take place.Sometimes it can even lead to dangerous situations which could be
instantly envisaged and avoided.

There exists a term “mental
disorder”.It denotes everything
unusual. You walk naked means you are unwell. You bathe in an ice-hole means
you are unwell. You eliminate negative emotions means you are unwell. You do not
want to get married means you are unwell. You do not love your parents also
means you are unwell! I offer another definition: mentally unwell are those who
do not want to experience certain emotions, wishes and thoughts but continue to
do so. If you do not want to have negative emotions but you experience them,
then mentally you are unwell and if you are aware of that, it makes you seek
the road to recovery which means the elimination of negative emotions.

One of the main difficulties
for negative emotions eradication is the false
interpretation of negative emotions as an “integral part of yourself”, as
your possession.The more a person is
craving for possessing the negative emotions the more difficult it is for him
to have a wish to eradicate even the strongest sufferings, especially because
he hopes to have PEs after the bout of negative
emotions. However if you start eliminating negative emotions, then all fears
and sorrows gradually disappear and their absurdity becomes transparent,
because as a result enlightened perceptions flash brighter bringing into the
light a dilemma of either this or that.One cup on the scales contains negative emotions, the other cup has the
delight of the touch of enlightened perceptions.

Negative emotions are not an
integral part of a person, they are just tumours.Quite often people talk about so called
“personal qualities” meaning that these qualities are inherent, given at the
moment of birth or instilled forever by their upbringing and if it is at all
possible to correct them, there won’t be much correction.When they say “I am short-tempered”, with
these words they display a “personal quality”, a “feature of character”.By saying this the negative emotion of
irritation is unavoidable in certain circumstances.Which means there is a definite steady and fixed
“connection” between circumstances and negative emotions.Also some special “nature” of this “quality”
is imagined, without realising that these tumours that can be either cultivated or eradicated.All similar “qualities” are nothing else but
deep-seated patterns of experiencing negative emotions.There are “no connections” it is simply a
habit and habits can be changed.

If you notice that all negative
emotions are being eliminated and you do not have negative emotions at this
moment, but at the same time you do not experience bright enlightened
perceptions as well, it means that right now you experience a negative
background (NB).Negative background is the same as negative
emotions only of poor intensity, as if they blur and spread like a “pre-bottom”
layer. They do not have obvious splashes but when they do spill, there are
usual negative emotions and quite often you might not guess that the negative
background you are experiencing is nourishing a layer for negative emotions and
negative emotions do not come from a vacuum.Negative background lasts a long time, it can drag for hours, days,
months, a lifetime.It is not easy to
reveal this deeply rooted negative background.It is worthwhile seeking advice from a practicing partner or practitioner
who has good experience of eliminating negative emotions, backgrounds & NEC
and he can see the signs of your negative background.If there is no such option, it is necessary
to intensify your attention and apply various techniques of the practice to reveal
the negative background. Emotions polishing practice is especially effective
(see below). Another option is to sort out your thoughts and watch which one of
them causes more obvious resonation and this will allow you to uncover negative
background.It may be anxiety triggered
by insecurities for the future, fear for a child, fear of the parents, fear of
people’s judgments, shyness, continual dull state, each will have his own.

Enlightened
background (EB) is revealed analogically to the negative
background.

Let’s introduce the term “Negative dominant”.Often people say that they are nearly free
from negative emotions; a few claim they do not experience negative emotions
and negative background for hours or even days.At the same time it is very obvious that this person is packed to the
limit with negative emotions and negative background, his face is distorted,
body is tense so much so that you just can’t help wondering:why he doesn’t realize it.Negative dominant is the negative emotion or
negative background which you are so much used to that you cannot imagine your
life without these and do not notice that you are experiencing them continually
all the time! I say again, that if you were free from all negative emotions,
you would experience some bright and steady enlightened perceptions at this
very moment, but if you do not have them it means right now you have negative
emotion or negative background or NEC, which is a negative dominant.

Do not stop at this stage of
discussing the practice, start your real fight for liberation from this
moment.Fight! How long can you live
with it?Yes, it is not easy to
eradicate negative emotions, but is it easier to live with them?Beginning to eradicate negative emotions is
the first step.If you do not make this
first step, you do not achieve anything at all and everything is closed for
you.How long will it take you to make
this first step?There are huge spaces
of enlightened perceptions in front of you, but you are very delicate with this
poison… Imagine that you are a mountaineer conquering a peak.It is very hard to reach the pinnacle.There are many people calling themselves
teachers, enlightened and masters, but have you met at least one person free
from negative emotions?This pinnacle is
not conquered by many and the reason is not because of its inaccessibility but
in the fact that nobody attempts to reach it.Nobody makes a direct effort of negative emotions eradication, but all
are seeking roundabouts, BRBs – postures,
mantras.Get your act together, your
persistence, the love of life, because if you do not solve your task, you will
share the fate of all surrounding you.Look at the old women who became a physical embodiment of negative
emotions, will you be happy with such a life?Look at the young people with vacant stares, who have spasmodic journeys
from negative emotions and dullness of PEs to deeper
negative emotions and most utterly boring dullness.Look at people of the age of 30 to 40 years
old, who long ago lost any hope for betterment.Do you want to be like them?If
no, fight.Imagine yourself an Amazon
woman, a terminator, a witch, because you will need the highest intensity of
all your strength, and not for some illusive “bright future”, but for
experiencing enlightened perceptions now, following the eradication of negative
emotions.Every step you make is a new
level of liberation, every day new splashes of enlightened perceptions are
falling for you, your life changes into a continuous creativity and you will
enjoy this venture.

There are benches at the
entrance to your block of apartments and sitting there are old men and
women.Also here are kids and
teenagers.And all these puppets are
inevitably going to change into SOMETHING, to denote what there are no words.
Look into their eyes. Do you want to become this SOMETHING?

As soon as negative emotions
are eradicated, flashes of enlightened perceptions will appear. If you can
clear yourself from negative emotions at least a little bit, you’ll see that
the path to freedom is incredibly simple! Just get rid of a few of distresses
and that is that!You will start this
amazing journey in deep penetrating feelings which are opening a new world
within you.It is not that you are
looking from afar at something attractive, but you yourself become a pleasure,
a discovery and a journey.

Enlightened
perceptions are impossible to experience behind the curtain of negative
emotions.You cannot create or contrive
enlightened perceptions, they are either revealed or concealed, but you might
wish to experience them.The wish to experience enlightened
perceptions becomes stronger with further liberation from “distresses” (see
below), and it mysteriously brings enlightened perceptions closer.If this wish is very strong, its quality
changes, I call it an “effort”, and then it leads to spontaneous enlightened
perceptions.At first these are short
splashes, which seem to appear without any connection with the practice.The strength and the depth of enlightened
perceptions depends on the intensity and sincerity of the efforts and this
later becomes very clear.When a puff of
smoke becomes thinner, it allows sun rays to get through. enlightened
perceptions are not in static states.When you experience them, you will become a journey into the amazing
worlds.

Society's reaction is a very
serious obstruction to the eradication of negative emotions and in starting
persistent practice.This reaction is
negative, aggressive-negative. People surrounding you, your relatives, your
acquaintances, the esoteric followers from forums and the internet, all of them
will probably show aggression to the idea of eradicating negative emotions and
explain in lots of words that it is impossible and unnatural and will lead to
terrible mental problems and so on.There
are exceptions to this rule, but not many.At first relatives and friends can agree with you about everything out
of fear of losing your attention, but the sooner your practice of eradicating
negative emotions and dogmatic concepts becomes consistent, the clearer is
their real attitude towards it.Such
unanimous aggressive-negative attitude towards eradicating negative emotions,
which quite often is accompanied with threats and physical violence, can
seriously threaten or disrupt your determination. Many practicing beginners give up when they
feel that they are in a vacuum and join those vegetating with negative emotions
all their life. It’s your choice and up to you to decide.

When
you reveal your usual perceptions, even though there is quite a big portion of
negative emotions among them and you have a wish not to experience them, you
still have this “feeling of comfort”.When you start practicing the SAS and replace your conceptions,
then a “feeling of discomfort” will
appear, in spite of the growing portion of enlightened perceptions.But from a certain level of saturation with
enlightened perceptions and during the process of replacing the perceptions the
feeling of discomfort will give way to the anticipation, delight and other
enlightened perceptions.One hour
outside the practice is recalled like more or less a smooth chain of
impressions.One hour’s effort is like
hacking through the jungle full of obstacles, overcoming them and making
discoveries.Enlightened perceptions are
rarely revealed, this is why a practitioner at an early stage of practice can
use this feeling of comfort as a reason to think that he is “sleeping” in his
usual distresses.Some people will find
this life terrible, like a life of a traveller that
seems to his old lady next door to be an awful nuisance and masochism.

Negative
emotions are similar to a cancerous tumour.For example, a person who is used to feeling
self-pity (SP) is destroying his life purposely and doing it without help,
because he needs to have a reason to stand out with this special “suffering” in
order to attract attention, to get compassion and to be comforted (this is what
he wants so much).He needs more and
more details to savour his misgivings, then he can
consecrate you into the “mystery” of his “sufferings” with a good knowledge and
with a sense of his superiority.The one
who is successful in this race for the championship, is getting the aura of a
martyr “distinguished by destiny” and thus strengthens his feeling of self
importance.

The
person prone to self-pity (pSP) cultivates a whole collection of wishes, which is
similar to a cancerous tumour, he welcomes more and
more the scenario leading to these “troubles” because the more negative
emotions and sufferings he experiences the more he can support his pSP and FSI.It will
enable him to occupy a higher ranking in the league of unhappy people,
demanding (and receiving) the compassion from others, as well as consequential
actions.His “troubles” (imagined and
real) become his possessions, articles of trade to be exchanged for service and
attention.As a result pSP destroys his life without anybody’s help, governed by
weak directed actions (wda)
and definite directed actions (dda).WDA are the
actions accompanied by the thoughts “I am doing this”, “it is happening”, but
if you ask this person or if he asks himself whether “he is doing this” or
whether “it's really happening», he will reply “no”, which means there is no
clarity in his mind.With DDA the person
admits he is doing it.

01-02) It is easier to
set a task of the negative emotions eradication than to start acting.Huge efforts are required and practicing has
to be an integral part of life, otherwise dreams will not be realized.It’s not “devoting special times for practicing”,
it is practicing directly in the day to day activities of your life.There are not many people, who shift from
words to actions and persistently and positively continue to achieve the goals
with anticipation and aspiration in spite of many ups and downs.

Negative emotions are
eradicated through the effort, as if you extradite yourself from negative
emotions like escaping from quicksand, you “recall” yourself in a state free
from negative emotions and “jump into” enlightened perceptions.Lots of training is required to perfect this
effort.See below the descriptions of
different variants of thoughts and images which resonate with the effort.Negative
emotion eradication is identified as an effort leading to the following:

1) there is no trace of negative
emotions, even an insignificant trace,

2) maybe weak, but still clear
enlightened perceptions appear.

Of course, getting this skill
to “jump out” of negative emotions perfectly with enlightened perceptions
following every time is not easy.In the
beginning more often this state “nothing-is-happening” will appear but it is
possible at least to recall the aspiration of enlightened perceptions after
every effort of negative emotions eradication.“Perfect eradication” is the
one which takes no longer than half a second.This period is not enough for negative emotions either to poison or to
produce a tail of consequential negative emotions or to feed negative
background.

In order to stay socially
adequatequite often people just suppress
negative emotions but it does not lead to the liberation from them but vice
versa, negative emotions turn into a heavy negative backgroundthat masks enlightened perceptions with a very
thick and solid toxic curtain.What’s
the difference between negative emotions
eradication and negative emotions suppression?The criteria is in the experiencing of
enlightened perceptions at least for a brief moment while the usual pattern of
negative emotions do not appear again.It is also possible to be orientated on the quality of your wish not to
have negative emotions, if it’s accompanied with anticipation the probability
of negative emotions eradication and not of suppression is quite high.If the wish is reasoned by fear, shame, FSI
and other negative emotions, eradication will not take place.

If an attempt to eradicate
negative emotions is followed by tiredness, fatigue, discontentment and
enlightened perception flashes do not appear, it means that suppression took
place and not eradication.By selecting
suppression you choose not to refuse negative emotions.This could be caused by a fear of
consequences or shame or other negative emotions, you do not show or feel your
inner state of boiling anger and you just try to look calm.When this happens quite often negative
emotions only get stronger, their centres multiply
bringing you to stinking boiling anger, which sooner or later will lash out.
One negative emotion can be forced out with another (e.g. irritation can be
replaced with shame, fear or self-pity), but intoxication continues.Listed below are the acts that do not lead to
the eradication of negative emotions but will only repeat in an infinite cycle:

1) Replacement of negative
emotions with PEs.If you are irritated with your husband, you call your friend and she entertains
you.

2) One negative emotion is
forced out with another.Shame is
replaced with aggression.

3) Self-cheating.You will still experience negative emotions,
but you think that nobody can see them, persuading yourself, that negative emotions are gone.Thus you kill your own sincerity and lose the
last chance to change.

4) An escape to boredom.Negative emotions are present, but you do not
let yourself think about it, you read a book or watch a movie, you just force
these negative thoughts out.

5) Adhesion. There is a thought
“I experience negative emotions now”, there is also a weak wish to stop them
but this wish is not strong enough to overcome your pattern to experience
negative emotions and your mechanical wish to continue experiencing them.

6) Suppression. This is
transforming negative emotions into negative background.

This
list is of course not complete, if you like, you can add to it yourself.

One of the main obstacles of
negative emotions eradication is self-cheating, when a person thinks he wants
to eliminate negative emotions, but actually he doesn’t want to do it.This is exactly what makes it so complicated
- it is your wish to have negative emotions without realizing it.When
you have negative emotions you always wish to experience themand the stronger negative emotions the stronger
is the wish to experience them.When you
realize clearly that the negative emotion is as strong as you want it and not
because it’s so hard to get rid of you will feel determination, anticipation
and admiration.This clarity can also
lead to a couple of new wishes, one being the wish to intensify the wish of
enlightened perceptions and the other to make the
negative emotions wish weaker.The wish
to experience negative emotions is accompanied with the thoughts-excuses of the
following type: “he provoked me”, “this is a fair negative emotion” and so on.

Eradication of negative
emotions takes place as a result of such efforts that have reasons such as:

1) a wish to stop suffering

2) realising
that it is impossible to live in this poisonous trash

3) aspiration to clarity and
enlightened perceptions which are incompatible with negative emotions.

When you eradicate negative
emotions you do not replace one with another because you will not be satisfied
with a shallow effect as this task is not concluded by hiding negative emotions
from people, but your goal is to stop negative emotions and experience
enlightened perceptions.As a result of
negative emotions eradication there will be some light but quite distinct
feelings of being liberated, some feelings of joy, of peace, intensive
calmness, anticipation and an interest for life. In the case of suppression it
never happens.

If we examine the process of negative emotions
eradication in detail, then the process is:

1) A very brief fixation of the
thought that “there is a negative emotion”

2) A wish to stop a negative
emotion

3) An effort of negative
emotion eradication (that is a sharp and concentrated bolt of a wish)

4) A wish to experience
enlightened perception

5) An effort to produce
enlightened perception

6) Enlightened perception
revealed

Only after the completion of
item 6 it is possible to say that the eradication was successful.However a successful eradication does not
mean the negative emotion will not appear again five seconds later, as it is a
very strong pattern, but if you eliminate it persistently every time it
happens, it’ll get weaker and weaker until disappears completely.

In the process of perfection
the links of the chain become more and more usual and in the end they will
happen automatically, as if on their own, like in the past negative emotions
have been revealed.Thus the habit to
experience unwelcome perceptions will be replaced with a pattern for welcome
ones and in the end it’s possible to master the perfect eradication of negative
emotions.After a while as you perfectly
eradicate the negative emotion, it won’t appear anymore and this is how you
achieve the complete eradication of
this negative emotion.When you learn to
ride a bicycleit’s really hard to keep your
balancebut once you’ve learnt you do not
even think about it.The same is true
for negative emotion eradication.

At an early stage of practicing
negative emotions eradication it is good to support the practice with visual images
and thoughts which resonate with this process of eradicating negative
emotions.Every practitioner finds an
image or images that works for them, it can be an image of a sunray which burns
all negative emotions or an image of a strong torrent wiping out everything in
its way or a blast blowing all obstructions to smithereens created by negative
emotions or whatever.Here are some
examples of images resonating with the
effort of negative emotions eradication:

1) Intensifying efforts, like
lifting a huge heavy stone from the bottom of a lake.First you brush off the silt, and then continually bring it towards the
surface.

2) Every strong negative
emotion is like a hurricane and in order to survive you have to furiously drive
a post into the ground continuously.The
wind cannot sway this post and with every gust the post gets more and more
stable.

3) Establishing power in a
rebellious country.Frenzy crowds of
charlatans want to take this power away.If you relax just for a moment, the power will be lost.When stability is achieved new laws are
announced; these are the laws of aspiration, peacefulness and joyfulness.

4. Uncompromising and gentle
return of attention from negative emotions to recalling enlightened
perceptions.It is as if I could not
stare at something because of erratic and chaotic movement of my eyes and I had
to shake myself all the time, slap my cheeks, settle my head, hide other things
under the covers.But at some certain
moment I learnt to look in one direction and delicately return my drifting
glance.

5. Laser, like a thin but very
powerful ray of light which rapidly and inevitably clears space.

6. Pounce of a tiger.With every exhalation I collect all my
strength and throw myself into an enlightened perception, I leap into it and
even if after one or two seconds of experiencing enlightened perception I am
sucked out of it, I continue leaping in again.Soon the initial state changes and I am capable of staying in
enlightened perception for 3 to 5 seconds.

01-03)
One of the techniques to shatter the stability of the pattern to experience
negative emotions in a certain situation is the practice of recurring replacement of interpretations.If at this moment you feel sad because of
loneliness, try to concentrate on the following thoughts: “how good it is to
stay alone for some time on your own, not to pretend to be somebody else, not
having to prove anything to anybody, not to meet somebody’s expectations and
rules and observe the morals; to have time to ponder, relax, to focus on my
feelings and fantasies.All the time
there are so many people around but now I can use this moment to enjoy being
alone”. As a result you will notice that negative emotions are weakened. Now
change your interpretation and think: “if there was a handsome guy next to me,
I could attract his attention, it would be interesting to both of us, I could
touch him and experience the erotic delight.Some people are happy together, but I am lonely, have nobody to talk to,
have nobody to be in love with”.As a
result there appears a painful feeling of loneliness and other negative
emotions strengthen also.Thus after
“swinging” between these two interpretations you will get an interesting
experience that a negative emotion depends on the interpretation of the
situation, not on the situation itself.Replacement of interpretations is not the way of liberation from
negative emotions, it only the first step.Firstly, the strength of the pattern to experience negative emotions,
which has been repeated thousand times before, is deeper than any
interpretations and secondly, while you replace the interpretations, negative
emotion is living, developing, poisoning and producing new negative
emotions.Such recurring replacement of
interpretations gives only a minimum experience of weakening negative emotions,
but still it strengthens the understanding that it is possible to influence
negative emotions independently of the situation.The false concept that emotions are entirely
determined by the situation makes you helpless, because it is not often you can
change the situation and as a result you do not see any way out.In one case you will be a pessimist buried in
negative emotions, in the other you are a revolutionary trying to change the
circumstances to those that do not lead to negative emotions, which is
impossible as negative emotions will be replaced by others.

If both interpretations are
equally possible, why not to choose and strengthen the one that weakens
negative emotions and allows you to be in a more attractive state?The replacement of unwelcome interpretations
with pleasant ones is a minimum task which enables you to shatter in a small
degree the pattern of immediate falling into the strong negative emotions.

It is very significant that
while practicing you accumulate the
experience when enlightened perceptions revealing themselves.Those moments that you actually lived in
enlightened perceptions accumulate and this happens not “figuratively” but in
the direct reality and sooner (or alas, later) it leads to a break-through and
you feel a spontaneous relief from eradicating negative emotions.The enlightened perceptions that you are
familiar with become brighter and more stable and new enlightened perceptions
are revealed.If there are such negative
emotions that you feel sorry to part with (usually this is sadness, self-pity,
pity to the others, jealousy, but sometimes it can be an aggression, negative
attitude), then you can get rid of those that you feel obviously unwelcome and
causing illness.

This pattern of experiencing
the negative emotions is intensified by hundred thousand repetitions, this is
why they can come back a few seconds later after their eradication. Strengthen
your firm determination and aspiration to achieve your goal no matter what and
to overpower this habit that is killing you.You will need lots of effort for a complete eradication from negative
emotions but you immediately get results in the form of enlightened perception
flashes following each successful effort.This experience accumulates and intensifies the effectiveness of your
practice and your fullness of life.

Attacking
one separate negative emotion is a very effective
technique.You choose the most
frequently revealing negative emotion, for example dissatisfaction, and take a
decision not to allow it to exist in you for longer than a second or two during
the nearest three days (three hours, an hour).Mixed with other negative emotions, dissatisfaction is revealed every
timeand sometimes it’s not easy to identify
it, to say nothing of eradicating it for only a second.This is why you have to watch yourself every
(!) second and eradication from one exact negative emotion becomes a massive
attack of many others.Even one hour of
such practice is very hard, as if you are running in a marathon, and if you do
not have this feeling, it means you are self-cheating, wishing is what you are
thinking is really happening, but in reality there is no total eradication of
dissatisfaction (you also watch that you have enlightened perception flashes as
they are a sign of successful negative emotion eradication).During these attacks you will form and
intensify the pattern of immediate negative emotion eradication and achieve a
significant progress in the speed and clarity of such eradication.The eradication from the next negative
emotion will be much easier compared to your first experience.

Another significant result is
achieved through a thorough control of perceptions in order to discover and
eradicate all negative emotions that are due for elimination.Such control is possible only if I am aware
(that is I fix in my Inner Dialogue) of everything what is happening to
me.This way I create a pattern of being
attentive to perceptions and get an experience of joyfulness from attention. There is a massive difference between a
simple life when you just do something and a life when you are aware of
revealing perceptions.The thorough
control leads to a beginning of a rapid process of perceptions segregation,
which also leads to a state of creativity.There will appear new and captivating ideas, discoveries, unexpected
aspects of enlightened perceptions and a sensation of special profoundness in
your life is revealed, as if a valve opens and lets the feeling of fullness
pour in.Written record becomes joyful
as well.

Negative emotions always have
visual expression (either brightly evident or hardly noticeable to an
inexperienced person), like a weak sigh, a light grimace, an unnoticeable
gesture, a specific change in the voice – let us call these “bodily signs of negative emotions”.Nearly all facial expressions, gestures and
intonations are merged completely with bodily signs of negative emotion.Control of your bodily signs of negative
emotion enables you to identify slipping negative emotions better and to
re-live the situation while eradicating negative emotions and clearing the
incidental negative emotions.Controlling facial expressions, voice and gestures is much easier than
controlling negative emotions, this is why identifying and eradicating bodily
signs of negative emotion is helpful to practice.If you missed a negative emotion and “woke
up” when it already matured and blended with others then you must immediately
get rid of the bodily sign negative emotion and after that the negative
emotion. Purge yourself, do not stop half way, eradicate even the smallest
flash of negative emotions until you achieve the state of
“nothing-is-happening” as the minimum or of enlightened perceptions as the
maximum.

The freedom from negative emotions
leads to clarity and liberation from false concepts.If you were raped, it can be painful and
unpleasant (not necessarily quite right, because if you give the rapist a
condom and remember, that it’s not so easy to find an erect and well moving
penis to be just “shagged” without being in a “relationship”, then you can get
pleasure as intensive as you like), but there is NOTHING “psychologically
traumatic” in it, as it depends only on you whether you experience negative
emotions or not.When you break your
arm, the pain is incomparably stronger, than the unpleasant feelings when
raped.Then why is the broken arm not a
reason to commit a suicide?Why are
there no clubs for psychological help for those that have broken an arm?
Because it is not common to experience strong negative emotions from broken
arms as it is not considered to be “terrible” and “shameful” while it is
accepted to be for rapes. The penis was forced against the will into the vagina
and this is what happened but very significant and enormous importance is
attributed to it which is elementary hypocrisy and stupidity.After you have broken your arm you’ll have to
have you arm in a plaster cast for two months then exercise your joints, have
injections to prevent tetanus and so on, whereas after a vicious rape all you
have to do is to apply miramistin or silverized colloidal solution for disinfection, take
measures against pregnancy, and as for bruises they will disappear ten times
sooner than a broken finger recovers. Besides, if you are not captured by
paralyzing negative emotions, it is possible to avoid rape or bring to the
minimum the unwelcome effects (see “questions and answers” – 0059).

Having realized that negative
emotions eat you away in the most direct meaning of the word, you can use the
practice of “remembering that negative
emotions are toxic”.The moment when
negative emotion appears you say either loudly or under your breath
“Poison!”“I do not want to experience
that!”It allows you to shudder and
mobilize, to remember your attitude towards negative emotions, to weaken the
mechanical wish to feel negative.Along
with that it slows down the inner parasitic dialogue which supports negative
emotions and produces their multiple flashes.There are no small things in eradicating negative emotions!Even the most “insignificant” negative
emotion is strongly toxicand when you
experience enlightened perception you can see that clearly but there is no
clarity when you do not have enlightened perceptions.The smallest shade of negative emotion
instantly and greatly weakens enlightened perception.Besides, a weak negative emotion, for example
a brief negative attitude (“NA”) or negative energy state (“NES”) (or in
other words “poor physical state of health”, inertia, apathy, “nothing-is-happening”)
can be an above-the-water part of a giant iceberg of negative background.Eliminate this part and the submerged part
will ascend and become accessible for investigation and then eradication.

“Negative attitudes” are weak
negative emotions, sometimes they are very faint, short and not always followed
by definitely clear negative emotions.For example, there may be enough of a brief glance at an unpleasant face
or at just any face and in an instant you feel hostility, disapproval or rejection.While practicing attentiveness you will
discover that you are penetrated every day by flocks of NAs, thousands of
them.The most effective technique to
eliminate these flocks is emotional polish and by concentrating on enlightened
perceptions.

Further I will sometimes call
this ensemble of negative emotion, negative energy state, negative background
and negative attitude as “four Ns” or “4Ns”,
they are nothing but varieties of negative emotions, this is why more often I
label them with a generalized term “negative emotions”.

It usually doesn’t even come
into people’s minds that negative energy state can be eliminated.This idea is interpreted as
revolutionary.It is thought that
dullness and inertia are an integral part of a personality, they are caused by
“objective” reasons and all we can do is interrupt them by entertainment,
orgasms, food and sleep.But negative
energy state can be eliminated like any other unwelcome state.The first step is to identify the negative
energy state as a separate perception and realize: “there is inertia” or “there
is a “nothing-is-happening”.Then it
becomes possible to investigate this state, have a precisely directed wish “not
to experience this state” and make the effort to eradicate it.

Let me introduce the term “distress” and use it to denote any
group of negative emotions, negative background, negative energy state,
negative attitude, of false concepts and mechanical wishes (see corresponding
chapters).

Position
of an unbiased judge: imagine you are judging the
conflict of two people (you are one of them) and you say: “stop talking
immediately, make neutral faces, and after that we will sort it out”.Get rid of the confidence in negative
emotions “justice”, stop boiling over nothing, because very often you assess
your negative emotions as “fair” and negative emotions eradication as an
agreement with “unfairness”.This is
what you tell yourself: “I will analyze the situation and make a decision, but
I want to consider and resolve this when sober and not intoxicated by negative
emotions which block the capability to think clearly”.Remember that any negative emotions are
intoxicating your body with poison and obstruct the capability to react
effectively, think logically, be exquisite, experience joyful wishes.This is why they should be eradicated
unconditionally and unquestionably.

To intensify the wish of
liberation from negative emotions it is good to list all unwelcome consequences
of experiencing negative emotions, that is the consequences you do not want to
have.It is also worthwhile to list the
actions decreasing the wish of negative emotions eradication.These are the following:

5) frequent orgasms (in average
it is more than one series of orgasms in 2 to 3 weeks)

6)
contentment and self-contentment

Periods of determined and
persistent efforts of negative emotions eradication can be replaced by periods
of apathy and impotence, but when you again return to practicing, you discover
that you it is easier in some aspects and this is the result of your earlier
efforts. What has to be done in these
periods of “kickback” and depression? (depression we identify as a state,
when the wish to feel distress is much stronger that the wish to experience
enlightened perceptions).

1) Minimum that you can do is
to investigate your distress: watch, record in writing, analyze, experiment,
look for patterns).Investigation
intrudes into the process of kickback and changes its colours
and now you are not the one which gave up, but the one who investigates and
watches.It is a significant difference
in how you will feel.

2) You can change other habits. I call it “conservative practices».The
habit of smoking, drinking alcohol, using words-parasites, dangling you leg,
frowning, cutting bread with the left hand… there are lots of habits, both
unwelcome and indifferent to you.Though
the change of habits does not require a high degree of concentration and
persistency as for the negative emotions eradication, it still increases the
effectiveness of negative emotions elimination.

An extract from Skvo’s records about quitting smoking: “the meaning of
quitting smoking is not the beginning of a healthy life style, at this stage I
do not think of this as a “bonus”. Smoking presents a very strong mechanical
habit.Unrealized, the wish to smoke
drags a whole pile of negative emotionsand
the degree of this distress is so high that it encourages the maximum
effectiveness of practising.It is not worthwhile to mitigate the
conditions of practicing because the result will be uncertain and you will not
be able to perfect your effort and use it in the “battle”.Of course I can go to the woods, do my
running exercises there, read, have sex and “stop” smoking, but as soon as I
see a kiosk selling tobacco or a friend who is enjoying a fragrant cigarette
and I will give up again, which means that the effort of the habit eradication
is not practiced right.My task is not
concluded in escaping the conditions favourable for
my habit to “sleep”, my goal is courageously to face it and eradicate it every
time it is revealed.In this struggle I
can “hardface” my effort, “sharpen” it to the
perfection and use it in the battle with negative emotions.

A
powerful effort is required in order to eradicate a negative emotion.It is not an easy task to exercise it but it
is very interestingbecause I eliminate what
I do not want to experience and I generate what I wish.It changes me radically.

01-04)
The practice of “recurring perceptions”
(RP) is especially effective.This
is a multiple re-experiencing and eradication of negative emotions.Again and again you can create or recall (e.g.
with the help of a thought which plays a role as a trigger) a situation where
you usually experience a negative emotion.As soon as this negative emotion appears you immediately eliminate it,
after that you generate it again and again get rid of it and carry on until you
have the power to do it and when you have no more strength for this exercise,
learn how to make super efforts while experiencing enthusiasm, anticipation and
aspiration.If, for example, after 50
cycles no more negative emotions appear, it means that the situation is 100%
complete.Next time the automatic
appearing of negative emotion will be weaker and much easier for
eradication.Due to this practice the
pattern of negative emotion appearing is quickly burnt and becomes clear that
the alternative whether to experience the negative emotions or not depends
totally on your wish and persistence.

Recurring perception of
negative emotions that are triggered by memoriespresent
a wonderful opportunity for eradicating flat and dense negative background
because many ingredients of this negative background take their roots in the
events of either recent or distant past.For example, you were raped or there was an attempt to rape you or your
“loving and caring” parents beat and abused you or you experienced a very
strong sense of guilt or shame and so on.The negative emotions suppressed at that time formed a dense negative
background which exists now.There is a practice
of emotional polish (see below) to eradicate negative background but recurring
perception of those memories can change and remedy much.Those memories can be fuzzy and fragmented
because you tried to forget them, this is why you first have to recall all the
details.Record every small detail you
can remember.If re-experiencing leads
to new small fragmented memoriesadd them to
your records.Re-play the event in your
memory from the beginning to the end, try intensively to feel what you were
feeling at that time no matter what it was: fear, terror, disgrace, shame,
re-experience what had happened to you.All these years you have been suppressing the memories of the event
trying to protect yourself from the negative emotions but now you have to
reverse the task to re-experience them to their maximum and completely eradicate
them.Imagine that you experience it as
a person you are today, you yourself have chosen to do it in order to achieve
the highest quality of eradicating negative emotion.When you are sure that the memory of the
situation does not trigger the negative emotions any more or you are capable of
eradicating them completely, you will realize that the situation itself does
not “cause” negative emotions, the cause is a pattern of feelings and sometimes
the wish to experience negative emotions.But it is your choice whether to feel negative or not.

If right now you have this
joyful wish to exercise negative emotions eradication but your situation does
not involve any negative emotions at the moment you can use your
imagination.The mechanism that reveals
negative emotions can be triggered by not only real but also fictitious or
recalled situations.For example, if you
want to work with jealousy, imagine your boy-friend hugging another girl and
support this fantasy with a thought: “I do not know who he is with and
where.I think that he is at work, but
if he wants to have sex with some other girl, he can do it at the time, when I
am thinking that he is working.”There
is no difference between the negative emotions appearing as a result of an
actual or an imaginary situation and this allows use of imagination for the
practice of recurring perception.

01-05)
Practice of limited total control (LTC):
During five or ten minutes you control every (!) second for even a smidgen of a
negative emotion could not slip in without immediate eradication.LTC enables to acquire the following
experience:

1) your efforts are directed to
the total eradication of all negative emotions regardless of what they are;

2) finding and eradicating even
of the weakest negative emotions;

3) you are in a higher quality
state of freedom from negative emotions than usual;

4) consolidation, stretching
time, more intensive and interesting life;

Limited Total Control is the
concentration of all your power, overexcitement and complete mobilization.Start with a short period of one minute.If I plan to live free from negative emotions
for a whole hour but experience them again and again without immediate
eradication, I will be defeated, my aspiration will decrease and my skepticism
will grow.If I am going to practice
only one minute and achieve success, it is already a victory and I will obtain
the experience of higher than usual freedom from negative emotions and the wish
to carry on with my practice.

During the Limited Total
Control exercise eliminate negative emotions as if this is your last battle and
you have no right to be defeated.If you
likeyou can scream under your breath or
strain your musclesor bite hard on your
finger or do whatever you like but do not give up and do not stop eradicating
negative emotions.Turn yourself inside
out as soon as you feel a negative emotion is approaching.The pattern should be broken at any price and
later you will learn to eradicate negative emotions without these strange
gestures, screams and so on.

The Practice of situation control (SC) is concluded in
splitting your day into typical situations that trigger corresponding negative
emotions and negative background.When
you are entering the doorway of your apartment blockyou feel an aversion due to the smell of rats, when you are going to
work, you are worried by the management’s opinions, etc.Achieve at least one particular success;
occupy at least one springboard that you are going to keep unavailable for
negative emotions.You will have ups and
downs, disappointments and discoveries, but your purges from negative emotions
in other situations will be a bit easier.You are different from what you have been, you have changed because now
“you” are nothing else but an ensemble of perceptions in this particular
place.You do not live your previous
life because you replaced the perceptions and if you wish you can advance in
the change.This is a result of your
joyful wish, persistence and determination in the realization of this change.

You have at your disposal a
simple and effective technique of achieving perceptions that you welcome and in
eliminating unwelcome ones.The smell of
rats in the doorway turns into an “enlightened
factor” (“EF”) which means that the perception of the doorway will resonate
with an enlightened perception.And the
higher the amount of enlightened perceptions among all other perceptions, the
greater the EB.

EB is like a trigger or a
switch that leads to the enlightened perceptions (especially if there is the
wish to experience enlightened perceptions).It can be anything – the view of an angry sea, of enormous mountains,
animals, plants, people, phrases, melodies, etc.For example, you are looking at the ocean and
you experience enlightened perception.Or a big beetle is flying over you, bugging you and landing on you and
suddenly it does not add to your enlightened perception, but as if a curtain of
dullness breaks and a dam bursts, there appears an amazing resonating of two
perceptions and you experience a bright affection towards this beetle, though
you have always been indifferent to beetles or even did not like them.From this moment the sight of a flying beetle
becomes an enlightened perception for you.

There is a mechanism of transferring enlightened perceptions, when one EB for
one enlightened perception becomes an EB for another enlightened perception.

I recommend that a list of all EBs is written, such recording will reinforce their power.

Details are very significant
for the description of EB, they have a quality of resonating, but it’s not easy
to identify them in a mass of other memories, I advise to describe everything
and later sort out what is important.For example, there is an enlightened perception, which is a memory of
you sitting with snouts on a couch, experiencing an enlightened perception.
While describing this situation you suddenly discover that there is one very
significant detail: a picture of small brown elephants on a couch cover.You cannot explain it logically, this is why
at first you even wanted to miss this element in your description as it’s not
important.

Anything can be an EB: a stupid
aggressive man, mud in the street, a crowded train, a billboard, a cigarette
butt in the toilet, whatever.The more
perfect you are in eradicating distresses, the more perceptions enlarge your
EB.Before you were bored of being idle
on a train, now you are busy every minute with the recording in your mind, with
emotional polish, with expressing your wishes, investigating concepts,
eliminating negative emotion, etc.In a
month you suddenly discover, that the perception of the uncomfortable and
crowded train is intertwined so closely with the efforts and enlightened
perceptions that it became an EB.If
before, looking at the boring and grey faces you experienced NA, then after
perfect eradicating NA those boring people became EB for you.

You always “know” what is
happening outside the walls of your home or office, there are boring colleagues
or neighbours that are busy with their boring work or
other boring tasks.But you also know
that somewhere outside your walls there is Hedgehoggie,
Bodhi, Fyord and other
practitioners and an ocean with a smooth surface and bright stunning mountain
tops.But by the old pattern you support
your imagination of what you are used to imagining, not what is EB.

I recommend that you keep
detailed investigation-reports of your practice of replacing perceptions, which
will be an explicit diary with the descriptions of your battle.It is necessary to blend with a note-pad and
pen.What were you doing, what was the
result, what was not successful, what discoveries and interesting observations
have you made, what intensity of negative emotions and enlightened perceptions
did you have in the process of your efforts, etc., see details in the chapter
“Descriptions and recordings”.For
example, you can mark negative emotions with different symbols to designate
negative emotions, which were eradicated immediatelyor in 2 to 5 seconds, or were not eradicated (if the negative emotion
was longer than five seconds).

Written
recording of the experience will become a counter-balance
to your skeptical thoughts and an undeniable proof of the fact that you are
capable to solve these tasks.Your diary
will contain your personal information unlikely to be read by anybody else
(others can begin feeling aggressive towards you), this is why in order to be
sincere and up to the maximum keep your records protected by passwords, e.g. in
MS Word. Your password should meet the following requirements: not less than 10
characters, avoid simple words, use capital letters, digits and special symbols
like @#$%^&*.

Investigation
of specific negative emotions and their classification
contributes to a more efficient differentiation and eradication of negative emotions.

Let us have a good look at
irritation. Irritation and displeasure are very appropriate for the training
ground to exercise efforts, because they reveal frequently, clearly and
distinctly and do not have a strong conceptual support as for example jealousy
or pity. (Negative attitude, displeasure, irritation, aggression and hatred are
the same negative emotion of different intensity, that is why a person with
“just” a negative attitude is a person who can reveal hatred at any moment).

Every particular kind of
irritation can be related with a definite category and after that
eradicated.With this it is impossible
to achieve a perfect eradication (that is from half a second to a second), this
is why it is worthwhile to classify negative emotions only during the initial
period when there is no good clarity of their character.When the speed of a certain negative emotion
eradication is increased and it takes from two to three seconds to get rid of
it, the categorizing of the emotion will have no efficiency any more. This link
of the chain can be now thrown away without any damage, but in the beginning
this classification of negative emotions has an advantage because in order to
identify the category and the quality of a negative emotion you have to study
very attentively all its aspects.This
way you learn to identify this negative emotion in your everyday life, which is
a necessary condition of its eradication.

For example, you can classify
all the aspects of irritation according to the situational patterns:

1) unwelcome behaviour from other people

2) you are not happy with your
own behaviour

3) undesirable combination of
circumstances

4) undesirable “behaviour” ofeverything

5) general irritation from “the
world that surrounds you”

It’s not so important to be
very precise in the description of a situation triggering irritation because
elimination of it in one situation leads to developing the capability to notice
and eliminate irritation in all other situations.

It is good to complete the act
of negative emotion eradication with a firm decision to carry on the exercise
of eliminating negative emotion to triumph and the confidence that enlightened
perceptions will appear and fill your life.

One more method of dividing
emotions into two categories is based on the difference of how they are
revealed, recorded and investigated.One
emotion is decreasing and vanishing, another is increasing, laminating and
becomes deeper.We can conditionally
call them “negative” or “positive” according to the first or second type.It is interesting that the emotions, which I identified earlier as “negative”, proved
to be also negative in accordance with these categories.Positive emotions act with ambiguity.Some of them also clear away, especially
opposites of negative emotions (e.g. “grieving over a loss – joy of
possession”).Others start forming
layers, which means, that earlier you could only see in the process only one
PE, now you are capable to differentiate a number of them.Some of them vanish or there appears a wish
to eradicate them, others on the contrary become stronger and there appears a
wish to experience them more often and gradually enlightened perceptions start
revealing as a result of such a purge.I
want to attract your attention that it is impossible to use this quality of
emotions for eradication of negative emotions, because the negative emotion
will generate many new negative emotions and intensify the negative background
during the period necessary for you to watch this negative emotion. As a result
it will not be eradicated, but will be replaced by another perception, but the
replacement of perceptions takes place in any case and as we can see, it does
not lead to negative emotion eradication. Usually it is the practice of those
who are self-cheating and actually do not want to refuse from the negative
emotion.

It is very effective to match
different trends of practices, though not in accordance with a schedule plucked
from anywhere, but by your interests and a joyful wish.It’s wrong to think: “first I will eradicate
negative emotion and after that I will deal with my wishes and concepts”.Distresses are very closely interweaved and
you never know in advance when and where a rip is going to happen, when it does
happen it looks like when you pull a thread, it affects not only the spot where
you pull, but the material is affected over the whole width.When liberation is achieved in one aspect it
affects the whole spectrum of perceptions and quite often during the progress
in negative emotions eradication there is the realisation
that some concepts are false.The book
has a consistency and sequence of paragraphs, it cannot be written otherwise,
but in practice your joyful wishes should be guiding you.

In the result of my
investigation of practitioners I am of the opinion that people with an
inclination to be aggressive have significantly less chances than those who
usually feel self-pity (SP).An
impudent, hot-tempered and aggressive person is much less capable of
investigating his own perceptions than one with SP.The real battle with aggression starts only
when you get rid of even its weakest forms like faint irritation and
dissatisfaction.The only way to get a
chance to eradicate aggression is to have total control of even a trace of
dissatisfaction or of a negative attitude and every minute record your
condition (every minute estimate from a scale of 1 to 10 for dissatisfaction
intensity).Aggression in any form is a horrible infection and the worst form of a
disease from negative emotions and you will have to fight desperately for
every minute of your life if you want to defeat aggression. While you
experience aggression nothing is possible for you - no development, no
practice, no spiritual quest.

It is quite easy to achieve an
eradication of negative emotions when you have a “couch practice”, that is the practice in comparatively comfortable
conditionswhen there are no strong negative
triggers and you are surrounded by nice people or you live in the countryside
and do not interact with unhappy people, etc.But more often the lengthy couch practice leads to a crisis, it is
especially possible to happen at the beginning of practice when you are not
used to experiencing enlightened perceptions.This word “crisis” means a state that has no noticeable distresses, but
on the other hand there are also no radiant enlightened perceptions. It is not
clear what way to advance.The feeling
that “nothing-is-happening” intensifies, the enthusiasm and anticipation decrease
to a low critical level.In this
situation it is necessary to resort to the “active quest” which enables you to reveal thick layers of negative
emotions and negative background as they could not be revealed without
corresponding triggers.It also permits
to exercise eradication of negative emotions in complicated and very
complicated situations, when the automatic mechanism of a reaction is
especially difficult for eradication.For the realization of the active quest it’s worthwhile to make “social experiments” (SE).In these experiments you place yourself in
the position of being attacked by other people.

But it is also good to think
over retreat strategies, variants of self-defense, ways of manipulating by
surrounding mechanisms (including people’s behavioral mechanisms) in order to
avoid unwelcome consequences of people’s negative attitude. This is why it is
particularly desirable to observe the law and have a chance to be protected by
legal systems in difficult cases.

Following are examples of
simple SE:

*) go to the shop and pay the
purchase price with the smallest denomination of coins. By law the shop
assistant has to accept any money as it is the legal tender. Possible negative
emotion of the practitioner is the fear of aggression from the shop assistant
and other customers.

*) on public transport do not
offer your seat to less fortunate. Possible negative emotion of the
practitioner is the fear of aggression and shame.

*) play the role of a fool in
the company of people you do not know. Possible negative emotion is the feeling
of inferiority, resentment and indignation.

Many readers of my book will
react negatively to the idea of making such SE.They believe this way the practitioners, along with exercising in
negative emotions elimination, “provoke” and add to other people’s negative
emotions.But my assumptions are the
following:

1) it is impossible to provoke
negative emotions in anybody. People choose themselves to experience negative
emotions and do not want to get rid of them.To receive proof in it I recommend that you tell any person (either the
first you see or your good friend) you have a method to stop experiencing
negative emotions and ask him whether he wants to achieve it. In 90% of the cases you will have a negative
response and will be given a lecture, that “without negative emotions people
become brain dead”.The other 10% will
partially agree that they wouldn’t like to experience negative emotions.Tell them about the PDP and ask them in a
couple of days what they have done.Let
them tell you in detail what they were doing, what was successful and
unsuccessful, what discoveries and observations they had, were there any joyful
wishes, etc. Absolute silence will be the response, nobody will bother to lift
a finger.This is the proof that nobody
wants to be free from negative emotions, but with a very rare exception.

(Try to “provoke” negative
emotions in a “snout”, in a person who wants to eradicate negative emotions perfectly,
and persistently exercises it, and you will see that you cannot do anything to
achieve this task, even if you insult him, cuss him, threaten him, fight with
him, etc.)

2) people ALWAYS have constant
negative emotions or negative background, if they did not experience them at a
certain moment they would immediately have radiant enlightened
perceptions.So what’s the difference
whether you or another customer cause the shop assistant’s aggression?Whether the shop assistant feels bored or
angry?More than that, many people
prefer the irritation and aggression to the boredom.

3) in these experiments the
practitioner does not have a wish to provoke negative emotions in other
people.He is just using the knowledge
of the mechanisms that people cultivate and he knows what behaviour
triggers a negative reaction.But if
suddenly some person smiles back at you instead of stereotype irritation, and
is at least friendly, then the practitioner will definitely feel better and
interested in this person (even in spite of a failed SE).

The practice of emotional polish (EmP)
is extremely effective for eradication of negative background and small
negative emotions.The unique
peculiarity of this practice consists of helping to clear the background that
you are not even aware of at a given moment. You know it is there only because
at this given moment you do not experience any enlightened perceptions.EmP means you make
the effort of negative emotions eradication even though you are not aware of
any negative emotions.You already have
the experience of negative emotions eradication and it’s not difficult for you
to generate these efforts when you do not notice negative emotions.You can have a schedule of EmP (e.g. 10 minutes of continuous EmP)
or link it to certain events (e.g. a glance of a passer-by, because it’s highly
possible there will be a small splash of a NA) and so on.

I advise you to think of EmP as cleaning your teeth or as necessary
precautions.Until you feel the
continuous enlightened background, the EmP practice
is effective and never too much.

In order to be fully
concentrate on EmP it is good to support it with
visual images and to have the practice of intensive
emotional polish (IEP):

1) An image of a flood of light
is created with every inhale.This light
is rising from your lower part of stomach into the centre of your chest.The image of the flood should be “tangible”
and “syrupy”, dense and radiant.

2) With every exhale the effort
is generated to eliminate all perceptions without any differentiation.It is the image of a powerful explosion of
light from the centre of your chest, which devastates everything in its path.

3) To ease the fixation, it is
worthwhile dividing intensive emotional polish into acts, series and
cycles.Act is one process of intensive
emotional polish for inhale and exhale. The series includes a few acts without
breaks (not less than 50 is recommended). Cycle includes a few series with
breaks in between cycles (not less than 10 per day recommended).If you use beads of a certain length, it will
help you to keep your concentration and not to count.

4) I recommend that every cycle
is completed with a written record of your observations on the basis of what
you wrote during intensive emotional polish.

5) You can have as many cycles
a day as you like.

Eradication
of negative emotion while you are sleeping is
possible, it is not difficult and doesn’t require you to be able to have lucid
dreams.It is enough to practice
sincerely and persistently when you do not sleep, and this pattern of negative
emotions eradication will develop and automatically work when you dream.The deeper this practice penetrates your
automatic dreams, the higher the level of the dreams’ lucidity which leads to a
higher probability that you will get the experience of lucid dreams (LD) and
that they will be multiple and very interesting because:

1) you will have a chance to
investigate an extensively broader and versatile world than the world of
perceptions when you are not sleeping,

2) in lucid dreams it is much
easier to experience radiant and various enlightened perceptions.See the corresponding chapter for details.

The side effect of negative
emotions eradication is in your growing capability to see negative emotions in
other people.It will be unusually clear
and easy to see negative emotions as if they are screaming with all their
lungs.You will see people as an open
book describing all emotions.People will not be able to hide the fact
that they experience negative emotions as they reveal themselves even in
the smallest habits, in gestures, pitches of the voice, a grimace or
words.What’s more surprising, they will
strongly object that they experience negative emotions now and looking at them
you will clearly realize what horrible mix of insincerity and dullness these
people live with.

It
is good to rid yourself of a fear of “unfavourable
conditions”. “Unfavourable”
is the situationwhen you still have not
formed the pattern of removing the negative emotions and experiencing
enlightened perceptions.If you are
ready to eradicate negative emotions and fight to achieve enlightened
perceptions in any situation then instead of spasmodic fears and frantic
escapes you will happily wish to change the circumstances which lead, as
experience proves, to a very interesting development.

Sliding into a dark state of
the kind “nothing-is-happening” is already easier to compare than earlier, if
you keep being determined and persistent in achieving your goal.I will call this state a “happiness from a nil result”.This is a happiness of persistence and
clarity, that you will not give up even in spite of a temporary absence of
enlightened perceptions.

There are three key moments in
the process of perception eradication:

1) separate out the perception
and identify it as unwelcome (in all the groups
of perceptions) because you have a wish not to experience it;

2) stop associating the
perception with “me” and “my” and start to consider it as a separate and
unwelcome perception;

3) make an effort and eradicate
the unwelcome perception.

The
first moment is very simple.The third
seems the most complicated at a first glance but actually you already have the
experience of making efforts in the conflict of wishes.These efforts are joyful and anticipated when
you are confidentthat “you” want it and
this is in “your” interests, then the obstructing wish is removed from the
conceptual identification of “mine” and is easily surmounted.Same in practicing, you shift the unwelcome
perception out from the protective “me” concept shield, and the efforts of its
eradication become more effective. When you achieve clarity in this, it will allow you to wish to investigate this
process and seek for the new effective techniques to stop the association of
the unwelcome perception with “me”.

01-06)
One more resonating description of an effort to eradicate negative emotions is
the “recurring attention” (“RA”),
and correspondingly the practice is called “the practice of recurring
attention”.I find it right to use this
phrase “recurring attention” for the beginning to describe the effort of
negative emotions eradication because the word
“attention” has been integrated in our language exceptionally well, the same
with the notion of the “past”.Even a
superficial analysis will be enough to realize that any perception, no matter
what it is, always exists only nowand the
“past” is just a word, denoting a group of
thoughts including the word “was”.It is
the same with the word “attention”.When
I say “I paid attention to the cow”, it means that the perception of the cow
was especially strong and stable in that place.

Here I will also give the
definition of the word “concentration”, which is often used together with the
word “attention”.If there are ten
different perceptions (visual perception of a few things, thoughts, emotions)
during a certain period of time at a certain placeand
another same period of time – only five perceptions, then I say “I intensified
my attention on a chosen object”, or in short “concentrated on it”. Thus the word “concentration” can be given a
definite meaning good for usebecause quite
often there appears a wish to grasp only a limited number of perceptions at a
given moment.For example, perceive only
enlightened perceptionsor a discussion on
some topic.If you try to concentrate on
some perception, but instead you are more attracted to another (e.g. by
mechanical habit), we say, that your attention “is captured”.But if there is a mixture of various
perceptions instead of concentration on one you want,
we then say, that your attention is
“scattered”.

The practice of RA consists of
“bringing back” your attention if it is captured by some chaotic diversions
(either negative emotions or mechanical wishesor
a mechanical inner dialogue or different visual perceptions, etc.). Your
attention is “diverted from the object” and after that either “leave” it free
or direct it to some welcome perception. If we talk about the language of
perceptions the practice of RA consists of replacing one perception with
another, but this replacement with the help of your imagination, that is the
imaginative language of “seizures” and “returns”, can be very effective in
exercising the pattern of perception replacements.

Mechanical thoughts steal your
attention with a sharp and short strike, like a seagull catching a fish, this
is why it is good to counteract with a swift and concentrated effort. Negative
emotions hijack your attention in a violent act, like a shark rips apart a
piece of meat, so it’s good to counteract with a powerful and fierce effort.
Mechanical wishes steal your attention in a quiet manner, not always rapidly,
but confidently, like Rome regiments laid siege
to Carthage,
this is why it is good to counteract with an tough and enduring effort equal to
an elephant.

Here is an example of recording
perceptions in the practice of RA.

*) I stop any activity, I sit
and do not do anything, eradicate Inner Dialogue and negative emotions

*) a state of clarity appears

*) the state of clarity clouds
over and disperses

*) the state of dullness ensues

*) crossroads: whether to get
rid of dullness and return to the clarity or give up. Let us concede, that the mechanical wish of dullness outweighs
the wish of enlightened perceptions

*) a spasmodic wish of
impressions follows to suppress dullness

*) you start the quest of an
object for your attention to adhere to

*) an object is found, your
attention is adhered to it

*) dullness is suppressed,
satisfaction and interest will come

*) in a certain period of time
satiety ensues, tiredness, dissatisfaction, loss of interest. The state of
dullness returns.

*) again the mechanical wish of
dullness outweighs the wish of enlightened perceptions

*) the mechanical wish of new
impressions follows to alleviate dullness

*) a new object for your
attention is re-discovered

*) the wish to eradicate the
enclosed circle “dullness – search of impressions – satisfaction – satiety –
tiredness” overpowers the wish to maintain it,
and the effort is made to return the attention. The attention is taken from the
object and is either freed or directed to an enlightened factor (a
perception-trigger, associated with enlightened perception).

*) regret for the loss of
impressions will appear.

*) I eradicate regret

*) the usual pattern tries to
reoccur and the dullness tries to strengthen

*) I eradicate dullness, let us
concede that it is done with in and out success

*) the spasmodic thirst for
impressions reoccurs again and again

*) I continue patiently to
return my attention again and again in spite of the regret for the loss of my
impressions, which is also eradicated

*) after a number of such
cycles there comes a strong tiredness, but it is a good and healthy fatigue

*) an enlightened background
comes and intensifies

*) there appears a feeling of
overflowing expansion in your chest

*) states of dullness and
clarity change kaleidoscopically, dullness can be replaced with a feeling of an
amazing profoundness and freshness and vice versa

*) intensive and “swelling”
feelings lead to the need to “rest”

*) I record that the “wish to
have a rest” is a mechanical wish to return to the usual state of dispersed
attention and dullness

*) there appears a persistency
directed to overcome the wish “to have a rest” and so on.

Eradication of the mechanical
wish of impressions (MWI) is more complicated when this urge is stronger and
the stronger it is, the more intensive and the more usual the background of
dullness and boredom builds. Being a negative dominant it is quite often not
even realized. Redirecting your attention from MWI is extremely difficult. It
extracts all your strength, sometimes you even have despicable “convulsions”
and it only once again proves how much you are hooked on these impressions and
try to use them to suppress the negative background. In the beginning of
Recurring Attention practice even one or two hours of idleness (simply sitting
or lying on the couch) is a real torture like colliding with the powerful
negative background head on. I recommend that from time to time while
practicing Recurring Attention you make records of perceptions as described
above. That will allow you to achieve clarity in the activities and track
results. When you compare your records and feelings, you will see, that every day your practice gets less and less
torturous and more often it will be accompanied by enlightened perceptions
splashes with anticipation and interest to the experience. Little by little
your addiction will be overpowered.

While practicing Recurring
Attention you can have attacks of depressing and boundless loneliness, anguish,
despair, groundless aggression, etc.It
means that earlier all these negative emotions were a part of your dominant
negative background and you did not notice they were intoxicating you, but now
when they are revealed you can eradicate them. When you refuse the Mechanical
Wish of Impressions, you will deprive yourself from injecting the drug called
“impressions”, then “withdrawals” appear and you want at least a little bit of
impressions, but if you give up you will experience a miniscule death, because
at first it is a bit easier, but then dullness and negative emotions overburden
you twice as strong. If you admit that you are addicted,
it will allow you to start very seriously with the eradication of this
addiction which is obstructing to experience enlightened perceptions.

Time stretches extremely during
the Recurring Attention practice. One hour of effort accommodates as many
discoveries, observations, hypothesis, ideas, whereas usually it takes a few
days.

01-07)
Among the mistakes which have not been yet browsed through, I will select the
following:

1)
Many people considerthat it is impossible
to eradicate negative emotions because they are the consequences of wrong
interpretations and likewise. They believe fighting consequences is as useless
as taking the pain relief and it’s expected that you treat a disease, while it
is necessary to deal with the illness, not with pain, and take antibiotics, not
Aspirin.Sometimes they also say that
enough is enough, just change your point of view and negative emotions will not
appear. Realize that everything is Atman and it will change. As a matter of
fact:

à) The minimum experience of
negative emotions eradication proves that the work with concepts does not
replace the effort of negative emotions eradication because the
well-established pattern of experiencing negative emotions works, no matter how
strong the supporting concept is.

b) While you think of the
reasons negative emotion lives on and grows all this time and attracts new
negative emotions feeding the negative background. As a result you will lose,
while perfect negative emotion eradication kills it instantly.

c) The minimum experience of
negative emotions eradication also proves that it is possible and not at all
difficult, gradually the old pattern of experiencing negative emotions dies and
a new pattern of eradicating negative emotions and experiencing enlightened
perceptions appears.

d) negative emotion is not a
physical pain and the analogy made earlier is wrong because it transfers laws
thoughtlessly from one area to another.

How do we differentiate between
a “reason” and a “consequence”?If I
have a toothache, I take a pain relief, but in an hour pain reappears and
intensifies. In this case I call pain as a “consequence”, and dental decay as a
“reason” and I treat dental decay thinking that I am dealing with a “reason”
and indeed the pain stops. But in three months decay reoccurs and then I call
it a “consequence” and find the reason is not brushing my teeth. A dietitian will
discover even a deeper “reason” in my poorly balanced nutrition.
Psychotherapist will call the unbalanced diet as a “consequence” of a child’s
complex of inferiority or trauma, psychoanalyst will call it a “consequence”
finding the “reason” in birth trauma.But a Buddhist will call the same birth trauma a “consequence” of wrong behaviour in a past life.

This is why depending on the
frequency and the intensity of the toothache, as well as my interest in the
matter, I deal with my pain at all levels. First of all I take pain relief,
then I go to the dentist, then I purchase toothpaste and start brushing my
teeth, keep to my diet, visit a psychoanalyst and begin singing mantras.

Let us have a look at another
variant. I have cut my hand and I disinfect it (because I have the experience,
or know of somebody’s experience, that if you do not disinfect you can get an
infection), apply some healing ointment and if it is healed I forget about it.
Now imagine a person who has a cut and it is healing but he is thinking: “no,
the cut is only the consequence, there must be a reason”, and he is looking for
the “reason”, he imagines it and even refuses to apply healing remedies because
he wants to deal with the “reason” and not the consequence! We think of such behaviour as stupid because the cut is successfully healing
due to an application of medicine, so why imagine the “reasons” and refuse
treatment with an infection as an end result? It is the same with negative
emotions eradication. When you suppress negative emotions (which means you
still go on experiencing them, you suppress only what is revealed), negative
background and negative emotions intensify and lead to understanding that
suppression does not bring liberation from them.When you start eradicating negative emotions
(switch over from negative emotions to enlightened perceptions and stop
experiencing negative emotions completely at a given moment), you are getting
the experience, that negative background
decreases and the pattern of negative emotions weakens and there are no side
effects, but on the contrary there will appear very welcomed consequences in
the form of intensified and more frequent enlightened perceptions, so why think
over the “reasons” and “consequences”? Acquire your own experience, eradicate negative
emotions and get the proof that there is no reason to identify this activity as
a “treatment of consequences”. Acquire your experience that if you do not
eradicate negative emotions but instead think over the “reasons”, then the
“wound” will start being infected, wrong concepts will strengthen, joyful
wishes will decline, your body will feel worse and your life will become a
nightmare. TRUST YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE, not somebody else’s words.

e) In this interrelated spiral
of distresses it is impossible to identify what the “reason” is and what the
“consequence” is, because one distress attracts another.

f) The comparison of the
results for your efforts to eradicate negative emotions and the thoughts of
reasoning will speak for itself.

2)
Some cunning and clever technique is being researched to enable you to get rid
of the negative emotions without any efforts, something like Big Red Button
(BRB), you press it and all problems disappear. People try to use whatever
possible as a BRB, like sitting in a certain posture, performing spells,
fasting, making themselves busy with sports, sex, meditations, thinking over
and talking about the integrity of the universe and so on, whatever, but not
making an effort to eradicate negative emotions.

It means that such a person has
no wish to eradicate negative emotions (he only thinks he has it) or it is very
weak, much weaker than the wish to experience negative emotions. The quest of
the BRB is fruitlessand to hope is
pointless.

3)
After the successful act of negative emotion eradication there may be some fearthat negative emotion will return according to
the old patternand again you have to get
rid of it. It leads to a spasmodic wish to hold this state of relative freedom
from the negative emotion. And sure enough this fear brings back the negative
emotion even faster and it attracts new negative emotions.

I recommend that you meet
negative emotions fearlessly, with determination, persistence and face to face,
not being afraid of them coming back repeatedly because these old patterns are
very strong but you will be able to exercise the effort in their perfect
eradication. Don’t be in a position of the victim, be a hunter for negative
emotions, track them down and feel the anticipation of a new experience, new
victories as well as defeatswhich will
inevitably bring the desirable result.

4)
There may be a misguided assumption that there are so many distresses and the
achievement of perfection in eradication of just one negative emotion takes
ages, as a result life will not be long enough for you to deal with all the
distresses and while you deal with just one of them all others will intensify.

This assumption is all wrong.
Even a little experience is enough to discover that it is hard to eradicate
negative emotions in the beginning. Gradually you will form the patterns and
acquire the skills for making the efforts, the wish of experiencing enlightened
perceptions and the eradication of negative emotions intensify and become
easier and faster every time you do it. Achieving progress in eradication of
one distress is similar to pulling the thread from material, you pull the
thread in one spot but the material will show a defect through its entire
width, that is the work with one distress will ease the work with the others.
Besides, the further you advance in your practice the more frequent are the
enlightened perceptions and the more interesting it becomes to live, there is
more enthusiasm, persistency, anticipation and determination. Your life time
lengthens tenfold, one day you will accommodate as many experiences as you had
in a month.

I
consider two years of intensive and sincere practice are enough to achieve the
perfect eradication of negative emotions and the continuous enlightened
background.

5)
If you have the wish to avoid some part of the practice (e.g. you do not want
to disperse concepts or develop your sexuality or eradicate a negative emotion,
etc.), it means this is the area of your strongest distresses and you give up
in advance. If you want to achieve progress in the PDP you definitely have to
choose the line of your main activity according to your joyful wish, not
according to the concept of the kind “I must develop in all aspects”.But if in some aspect you feel a strong
rejection or fear that is caused by just an idea of dealing with it, it means
that here you have very strong distresses. Be aware of it, eliminate your fears
and negative attitude, catch every splash of anticipation from the thought that
you can do it, this is just the matter of your sincerity in the aspiration for
the enlightened perceptions.

6)
There is a point of view: “If you accidentally run into a bear in the woods,
fright will take over thoughts and emotions. This is the moment when the body
changes its chemistry and produces adrenalin but because it’s a natural
reaction of the body which is not overruled by the mind, is there a point and a
need to avoid it?

When you see a bear in a zoo,
by some reason you are not scared, but you are amazed and fascinated. It proves
it’s not the perception of the bear that caused the fright but it was caused by
a chain of thoughts you were not aware of: “the wild bear – free – dangerous”,
this is why there appeared negative emotions and related negative feelings in
the body.The same example proves that
the chemical changes of the body do not inevitably bring the negative emotions,
but vice versa, the negative emotions inevitably cause chemical changes of the
body and this has already been discussed earlier when I stated that any illness
and ageing are consequences of negative emotions. The pattern of being scared
at the sight of a bear can be changed as well, this will also allow you to
think faster and clearer and react if there is danger.

7)
Main difficulty of negative emotion eradication consists not in the
overpowering of its pattern, as it may seem, but in not being sincere enough.
The practitioner does not notice or does not want to notice, that actually he
is trying to find side routes instead of negative emotions
eradication, because he is reluctant to halt negative emotions and at the same
time to have enlightened perceptions.Such a practitioner reminds of the swan, the lobster and the pike
pulling in opposite directions (this is a russian saying)
this is why the efforts are ineffective. Usually the insincere practitioner
wants to talk about negative emotions instead of eradicating them. Hours and
hours he can talk about his problems, day after day ask the questions of the
kind “how shall I eradicate negative emotions”, “why did it happen”, make
excuses like he cannot identify what exact negative emotion he is experiencing
at that moment, though differentiating negative emotions is not a necessary
condition for their eradication, you can eradicate the “foul state” as a whole.
When you have negative emotions there is no point in thinkingthis will not lead to the eradicationbesides your mind can be not very clear at that
moment, because negative emotions cause dullness and obstruct consecutive and
creative thinking. First eradicate negative emotion, then think if you like,
this is the effective performance.

8)
There is a wide spread delusion that if you want to halt negative emotions it
is enough to “accept everything as it is”, just realize your negative emotions,
accept them as they are, ask yourself “who is experiencing them?”, relax, stop
identifying them as welcome or unwelcome and they will vanish.

Such a point of view is an
excuse allowing you to have negative emotions, it is a way of cheating yourself
and others. It is especially spread among “esoteric people”, i.e. people who
want to impress others with their wise and profound speeches, important looks,
who want to be recognized as “teachers”, but do not want to stop negative
emotions. It is nearly impossible to hide negative emotions, they are always
noticeable for an attentive person who can judge by the face, voice and
manners, that is why an “esoteric person” says: “I am not just experiencing
negative emotionsI am observing them and do
not assimilate with them, they do not have power over me”. In reality this is
just a juggling of words and if you are experiencing a negative emotion it is
impossible “not to assimilate” with it, because a “person” is a set of
perceptions and if in this set there is a negative emotionthen he is the one who is experiencing a negative
emotion and no word games can change that. If a person doesn’t start
eradicating a negative emotion at the moment it appears, it means he wants to
go on with it, and his situation is utterly hopeless if he is not sincere and
does not realize that his wish to experience a negative emotion is stronger.
How can such a person “teach” if he is not sincere and wants to experience
negative emotions, he is cheating himself and others with his abstruse speeches?

While you “accept everything as
it is”, “observe and not assimilate”, the pattern of experiencing negative
emotions will only intensify.

9)
As a result of the consecutive development of civilization the number of people
is steadily growing who aspire to the creation and the accumulation rather than
destruction and dull vegetating (exceptions to this rule are known from news
broadcasts). But in this problem of choice what to accumulate, perfect, create,
there is a total confusion, and when a person makes his choice, he is guided by
stereotypes, wrong concepts and not by his wish.

à) Accumulating money. How much
does a person need to purchase everything that pleases him? Is one million
dollars not enough? Especially if you put your money to a conservative bank and
live on the interest, then half the amount will be enough. In the USA there are
more than one million people with a fortune greater than $1 million. Did they
stop their business activity, vacate the commercial area for others and enjoy
their life? Nothing of the kind. They go on working ten hours a day every day
to earn more millions and so on. This is not accumulation, it is an addiction.
This is a paradox, but they do not have time to enjoy their life and they spend
all their time like a hamster in a wheel. Also how many people are there
wasting their life and earning nothing to speak of?

b) Accumulation of things.
Things can be damaged, broken, stolen or they can go out of fashion, all this
can make an accumulator’s life a nightmare. If you have had a car you have been
driving for five years and you can drive for ten years longer, why do you need
to buy a new one? Is it only producing an impression for other people (keeping
up with the Jones’s)? Or is it to get more comfort? Is it so necessary, will it
make you happier? If you work harder and earn moreyou
can buy a better car (or a country house or furniture, depends on what fixation
you have). After that if you earn more, you can buy a more luxurious model. You
can also purchase lots of things on credit and after that having to pay them
off for the next 30 years… Is it an addiction? Did these purchases make anybody
happy? Look at the faces of those possessing the expensive cars and it will
become clear that their faces are distorted with suffering, with negative
emotions as well as the faces of other people, and maybe even more. People have
forgotten that things are for people, and they have become servants for things.

c) Education. A person can
spend a few years and receive another degree which will quite often not give
him any advantage either at work or an interaction with other people, or, what is more, get any pleasure. The sense of
your own importance is growing of course but it makes you more helpless and
inclined to resentment, self-pity, unable to follow your joyful wishes, to be
open and kind. You cram your head with lots of rubbish and after that you
receive a certificate witnessing that you have one more garbage bin in your
head and that your hands and feet have acquired a few more skills that you will
hardly ever apply. Information can be forgotten, your skills need regular
practice, and as a result you can forget about enjoying your life. All your
tertiary diplomas are framed and mounted on the wall and certificates for
skydiving, scuba diving, paragliding and tourism only remind you that the
skills are being reduced, the money you paid is wasted and right now you are
bored and have to cope with dullness and other negative emotions as you do not
have any joyful wishes.

d) Children and grandchildren
are indeed a huge bottomless pit, millions of people invest their lives in
them. Have you heard this: “I live for my children”?This is met with every step. A woman gives
birth to a child and from this moment she does not have to have joyful wishes,
she has no time for that as now she has lots of “I must”, “I should”, “I have
to”, “it’s sensible to”, etc. Lots of caring, concerns, no time for anything
else, including realizing that all this “life for children” is just an
addictive drug you take. It’s not worth mentioning, that children do not want
their parents “to live for them”, thus making themselves speechless creatures
who have no free time and no choice of what to do. They want freedom from the
parents care and surveillance which quite often takes a form of primitive and
rough physical and psychological violence. The longer a person lives “for his
children”, the higher degree of his dependence on the addiction from
“upbringing” of the children. If the upbringing was “successful”, resulting in
obedient and listless mechanisms, now they get bored together and fight with
each otheror shift their addiction onto the
grandchildren. But if the upbringing was “not a success”, children send their
parents as far away as possible and negative emotions overpower the parents
again with a new intense strength.

There are lots of examples of
this kind but all of them have one thing in common and this is the wrong object
of the accumulation. During the process of this accumulation and due to the
result of this process negative emotions intensify as well as the addiction
from impressions and the person’s insecurity regarding the safety and the using
of things he has accumulated, also is growing with an increasing feeling of his
life being useless. He remains with a broken wash basin and is either rapidly
and completely destroyed, or he has to intoxicate himself persuading that his
life was not empty and looking for new objects for accumulation while trying to
close his eyes and not to see that this accumulation does not make his life
happy.

Differently from all that PDP
allows you to have a unique object for accumulation, these are enlightened
perceptions that profile a person, i.e. not what “he possesses”, but what he is
himself. You do not need anything, except being alive, to make the journey in
the world of enlightened perceptions. It is impossible to deprive you of these
accumulated “possessions”, these possessions don’t need to be dusted and don’t
age or expire.This is an exclusive and
unique chance for a person’s way out of the deadlock that he has been trapped
in for thousands years.

01-08)
While you are eradicating the strong negative emotions you discover a whole
swarm of minor negative emotions which you have experienced but did not notice
in the background of more intensive negative emotions.You discover it while trying to find a reason
why your enlightened perceptions are so rare and weak, even though you
eradicate negative emotions perfectly and have a wish to strengthen enlightened
perceptions. In this case you can make a “consolidation”.
What earlier you would identify as a “3” or a “4” on the scale of intensity, now you will
estimate as a “10”
and thus all “minor” negative emotions that earlier you were not even aware of
will get significantly higher in intensity rating and will be revealed and
eradicated. The negative emotions that were estimated on the old scale as 3 to
10, now will be identified as “exceeding the limits”.

Make the “attacks” of total
control and try to be aware of the tiniest splashes of negative emotions, even
when you are not sure if there really was a negative emotion. As a result you
will find that during half an hour you experience not just 5 or 6 negative
emotions as you have been thinking, but 50, 100! They seem to be so minor but
when you eradicate them perfectly there appears a very strong splash of
enlightened perceptions in frequency and intensity. Then it becomes clear that
those “minor” negative emotions are not minor at all as their effect on
enlightened perceptions is paralyzing and their eradication leads to
enlightened perceptions intensity.

Qualitative consolidation
always brings awareness that if earlier you could reveal only a few negative
emotions, now you discover tenfold.

When you practice consolidation
I recommend that you divide your day with 5 minute periods for recording the
number of negative emotions (and eradicate them, of course).The more there is of such 5 minute dividing
periods, the more successful consolidation is. If you dedicate a few hours a
day to this exercise, then in a few days you will form the welcome pattern of
noticing and eradicating “minor” negative emotions.

Technically it is very simple
to eradicate the micro-negative emotions, but it requires a very high degree of
attentiveness, because they are so tiny and
hardly noticeable, that it is very difficult
to tune yourself into their complete and perfect eradication. But ignoring them
is dangerous and wasteful. Dangerous because they appear one after another,
thus feeding the negative background and blocking enlightened perceptions.
Wasteful because the perfect eradication of micro-negative emotions leads to
the unexpected increase of the intensity and duration of enlightened
perceptions.

While the number of negative
emotions is decreasing and the enlightened perceptions is increasing there
appears and intensifies an “effect of a
longer day”. Just during one day you will experience as much as for a week,
two weeks or a month. It is especially clear when you compare the number and
the significance of your discoveries that are recorded in your diaryand it is especially revealed while you are
practicing consolidation. As a result and due to the practicing consolidation
the real life expectancy grows tenfold.

01-09)
It often happens that you are not aware of either enlightened perceptions or
negative emotions – “nothing-is-happening”. Which means that at this given
moment there is negative background, because if you have neither negative
emotions nor negative background there must be an enlightened perception. This
is how this negative background is called – “nothing-is-happening” (“NIH”). If NIH has a low intensity, then PE splashes happen often and the negative
background is called the “light-grey
state” (“LGS”). I will call this trinity of perceptions: satisfaction, NIH
and LGS as “SNL”.

When you get to the finalizing
stage of eradication of strong and frequent negative emotionsthe problem of SNL will present itself in full
capacity because SNL are absolutely incompatible with enlightened perceptions.
The person suffering from dominating negative emotions for many years and
considering his total life that SNL will save him from his sufferings will not
easily say good bye to SNL. Sometimes he will “plunge” into these states until
he feels disgusted and aspires to enlightened perceptions but even after that
overpowering the pattern of SNL is not an easy task.

The wish of PEs
is strongly revealed in the background of SNL, which is often called the “wish of impressions” (“Wimp”). The
concept of Wimp also includes the wish of all activities that would please a
person and bring PEs, like reading a book, watching a
movie, talking, sometimes even “lip-synch practice”, i.e. imitate practicing
through copying its outward forms (most frequent form of imitation is empty
discussions about the practice).

I recommend in order to
overpower SNL and wish of impressions that all formal practices are to be
actively used to their maximum, like expressing your wish [of experiencing
enlightened perceptions] aloud, generating enlightened perceptions, emotional
polish and so on. Formal practices will be effective if you exercise them not
less than 1000 acts per day, with the optimum series of 20-50-100 acts on
completing each series with a free quest of enlightened perceptions and
“attentive sensing” of enlightened perceptions.